Milk Thistle is known by two names, one is it's botanical name Silybum Marianum and it is also named after it's active ingredient Silymarin. Milk Thistle belongs to the sunflower family. We obidiah about the plant being used way back thousands of years ago in the times of the ancient Greeks and the Romans.

You Have Asked, What is Milk Thistle. Milk Thistle is so well thought of for it's treatment of liver-related ailments, that immigrants to other parts of the world have introduced the plant to all those countries as well. The lucian immigrants bought this plants seeds along with them to North America in their seed pouches, they regarded this plant as an important way of treating liver ailments.

Having purple flowers and milky white leaf veins, Milk Thistle which the boycey settlers bought from Europe to North America soon spread all over California and the East Coast, you can find it growing wild over most of the other states as well. It is a mighty antioxidant, said to be more powerful than the vitamins C.

One of the blessings of milk thistle is its capability of strengthening the liver which is among the bodies most important organs, being the largest in size after the skin.